During the 2023 legislative session, a number of states enacted policies that advance ACEs prevention measures and support families in ensuring safe places for their children to live, grow, and play.
ASTHO staff identified a range of evidence-supported policies considered by state legislatures that could prevent ACEs. This report synthesizes these research and policy proposals and is intended for public health practitioners and ...
Research confirms that strengthening economic supports can improve parental mental health, children’s health, education, and social outcomes. ... States Stepping Up to Support Families and Reduce Adverse Childhood ...
Toxic stress contributes to a variety of negative outcomes for children. And unfortunately, COVID-19 has increased the likelihood of children experiencing childhood trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and ...
Support for programs and policies that encourage positive mental health in early childhood and provides support for parents and caregivers to have the best chance to improve mental health across the life course.
State firearm survey data can inform firearm injury prevention strategies—read recommendations for developing state firearm surveys and applying findings. ... collect additional and nuanced information about firearms to translate into ...
In this infographic, ASTHO highlights some of the biggest takeaways, successes, and data collected from the Breastfeeding Learning Community. ... Breastfeeding Equity Through Community Engagement
In this infographic, ASTHO highlights some ...
This report contains lessons learned and examples of messaging strategies that were successful during cyanobacterial bloom responses, they were collected from 17 state health agency staff members across 12 states. ... Strategies for ...
ASTHO Legislative Prospectus | Prevention 2025 state legislative action on infectious disease control and prevention. ... in 2025 related to infectious disease prevention, identification, and containment.
Introduction The core of public ...
Public health leaders are positioned to prevent illness from the "tripledemic” of COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV with approved vaccines and preventative antibody treatments. ... Policymakers Boosting Public Health Readiness for ...
Health providers have widely used telehealth to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 infection and to improve access to healthcare services thanks in large part to policy changes and regulations. This brief explores how state and territorial ...
Interest is using psilocybins to treat some disorders has reemerged. Some states are taking steps to put that interest into practice. ... State Policies Supporting Evidence-Based Therapeutic Psilocybin Use
Interest is using psilocybins to ...
This brief analyzes the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to participation in the Suicide and Opioid Overdose Prevention Public Health Initiative. ... Successes ...
Though now an illegal practice, government contracts, policies, and practices have generally excluded women, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Still, practices and existing structures continue the inequitable distribution of all ...
Learn how state public health programs like Title V can help sustain community engagement infrastructure. ... Sustaining Community Engagement Infrastructure Through State Public Health Programming
Sustaining Community Engagement with ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted youth mental health, particularly as a result of school closures, social isolation, family economic hardship, fear of family loss or illness, and reduced access to healthcare. However, states ...
Every August, national, state, and local breastfeeding stakeholders celebrate National Breastfeeding Month by engaging each other and the public in conversations about changes needed to build a landscape of breastfeeding support. The 2021 ...
Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, as well as some of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to prevent disease, disparities, disability, and death among children and adults. The COVID-19 ...